Technology and Humanities
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Technological Advancement and the Humanities in the Twenty First Century
The study of the humanities cannot be invoked as defense of something human opposed to technology that supposedly converts us into mere consumers or into victims of manipulation against the human free freedom. Except for the few who refuse to adapt, those who scorn technology as dehumanizing still take advantage of the computer, the fax, and electronic mail in order to better communicate with friends, that is, for their human needs. Humanists use technology for the main purposes of communication through email, searching of bibliography and indices, storage and transmittal and analysis of primary evidence. The goals and methods of the humanities and those of the technology are so different from each other that an objective conflict between them is impossible.
For centuries, literature and public dissertations have regarded technology undecidedly, as both curse and cure. It remains tempting to state that the study of humanities in the University has undergone a massive sea change in the past decades as a result of the large-scale implementation of digital information processing and recovery (Berry, 2012). However, such a statement can be regarded as historical, for the reason that it is likely to bring about, precisely, a set of hypothesis regularly cross-examined by scholars in the field of humanities who study technology, technological transformation and the production of knowledge. Without doubt, the advancement in technology has profoundly helped in the study of humanities.
It is possible to see the result of this reconfiguration of knowledge most vividly in the practice of teaching composition....
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... effective for humanists when it comes to recovering information. Furthermore, the new advancements in technology take human beings beyond quantities of information to some of the process of human intelligence. For instance, techniques of micro-processing have been used to measure and improve awareness, conceptualization, logic and verbal communication.
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